Policy T1: High Quality Design and Amenity

Object

Representation ID: 4540

Received: 05/08/2025

Respondent: Blueberry Homes

Agent: Savills

Legally compliant? Yes

Sound? No

Duty to co-operate? Yes

Please see above.

Support

Representation ID: 4598

Received: 08/08/2025

Respondent: Ms Bridget Fox (Woodland Trust)

We support policy encouraging retention of existing trees and new tree-lined streets in line with NPPF para 136. Trees deliver multiple social and environmental benefits. Tree planting should be prioritised in areas of lowest tree cover and greatest environmental need. Design guidance should promote green connectivity in the location of new planting, and prioritise suitable species selection including UK sourced & grown tree stock for biosecurity, in line with the Kent Tree Establishment Strategy.

Support

Representation ID: 4906

Received: 11/08/2025

Respondent: Kitesfield Estates Limited

Agent: Bloomfields Ltd

The use of a design policy is supported. However, The Hoo Peninsula is an area identified as a strategic location which will be able to grow and flourish well-beyond the end of the Local Plan period. On this basis, careful consideration on design would need to be taken on sites which will currently mark a transition or are on the edge settlement, but which may in the future form part of a wider development.
The potential to bring forward sites that adjoin site HHH41 by way of windfall developments is considered a positive step.